also, richard stengel. sewall, and richard stengel,oal, -- nominated to be undersecretary of state for public dependency -- diplomacy. they will be responsible for the development of policies of who will be in the position to represent america and how american values will be reflected around the world. our first panelist is heather higginbottom, who will play a key role with respect to priorities of mine, determining who represents the united states abroad and our policies to protect them. i have been pressing the department on the issues for diverse of the and minority recruitment and retention. all foreign service personnel should merit the diverse it best -- everest the of the nation. last year state completed a hiring effort to increase the workforce area for department that ranks near the bottom and it comes to diverse city, one would expect a focus on doing more to diversify the workforce. gainsd, we saw only some by asian-americans and african- americans and virtually no gains for hispanic-americans.